Concomitantly, it was released from Unbound Medicine for the mobile platforms.

For iPhone/iPod Touch version play this video;

And this time with landscape support;

For the Windows Mobile version play this video;

Unbound Medicine’s Red Book is also compatible with all other platforms including Palm (but not Palm Pre), Blackberry, and even Android.

The AAP book store is offering the same Unbound Medicine Red Book and interestingly at a higher price for non-members!

Skyscape’s and other developers versions will be available in the near future as per the AAP.

Although not as rich as the AAP’s Red Book online, the UM’s web version of the Red Book is offered for free when we subscribe to any of the mobile platforms and so we can access it offline on the handheld and also online on the desktop and wirelessly.

The Red Book is undoubtedly a must-have reference for any pediatrician and we should all upgrade to this latest version, by the way UM provide free upgrade if you’ve been a valid subscriber of the previous version.

It can better

UM’s Red Book is great but still there’s room for improvements;

• Wish to see images included.
• Wish to see search history.
• More linking to external resources.
• A “what’s new” section would be great.

Also some problems were found in this first iPhone version;

• There’s a bug in which the home page does not tilt to landscape only after switching to landscape from within the contents.

• Some links are broken and others are dead as seen here;

However, since this is the first release we expect to see fixes in the near future.

Some useful links

• Check the latest results of the Best Infectious Disease Apps Poll.
• Download the UM’s Red book for $99.95 directly from Unbound Medicine here.
• The print edition and an online access package can also be purchased for $275 from Amazon here.

The AAP’s Red Book is one of the most trusted infectious disease references ever available on the PDA. It is provided from the AAP directly in a mobipocket format and from Skyscape and also from Unbound Medicine.

They all deliver it in a similar price range $100-110. Read this post for a comparison of the three.

What was interesting is that Medical Wizards used to offer this title for less than half the price at $50! However, only for the Palm platform and even cannot be installed onto Windows Mobile via Style Tap because it’s .exe and not .prc file.

That Medical Wizards page looked really strange as the description was a mere copy and paste of that pdaMD offer where they delivered the Red Book and Epocrates Rx in one device bundle. So they did not even bother to write their own short description of the Red Book.

However, after I contacted both the AAP and Medical Wizards, that page was removed and the Red Book is no longer offered! It seems that was a big mistake from Medical Wizards.

I just wonder for those who purchased the Medical Wizards version of the Red Book, do they still have it? Is it legal!

UPDATE: We received a support reply from Medical Wizards saying that the file can still be downloaded from this link, however, that’s a free trial download we don’t know how to purchase the product. They also said that the product page is to be upgraded and to be published soon! Probably, they’ll revise the price!

Waiting for your comments…

1) AAP Store

2) Skyscape  and

3) Unbound Medicine.

So which one should we go for?

The one available from AAP is in the Mobipocket format which is a very nice ebook reader and comfortable to navigate but the price is $109.95 for non members (99.95 if CD purchase!) and $94.95 for members! Check out this AAP page

Skyscape offers the same 2006 27th edition for $99.95 in the familiar Skyscape format which very user friendly but there are some difficulties with tables.

Unbound Medicine gives us exactly the same edition at exactly the same price but with additional web and wireless access!

Given what’s said, it seems that the best option is from Unbound Medicine, awaiting your comments!